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   Prov·en·der

   /ˈprävəndər/

   

   noun

   • 1. animal fodder: "to raise the prices of provender for cattle, importation has been severely curtailed"
   • ▪ food: "there's no one to carry your provender in brown paper bags to the boot of your car"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French provendre, based on an alteration of Latin praebenda ‘things to be supplied’ (see prebend).

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   What does provender mean?

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   What is provender food?

   • Provender is food that might not be fancy but it keeps you from going hungry, like the long-time provender of college students: rice, pasta, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and the occasional discount pizza. The noun provender comes from the Latin word praebenda, meaning "things to be furnished or provided."

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   How long has provender been a word?

   • Within a half a century, the word's current meanings had developed. These days you're most likely to encounter provender in articles written by food and travel writers.

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   5 days ago · provender in American English. (ˈprɑvəndər) noun. 1. dry food, as hay or oats, for livestock or other domestic animals; fodder. 2. food; provisions. SYNONYMS 1. See feed.

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   A complete guide to the word "PROVENDER": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

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   Lawrence went into camp near a farmhouse, where he noticed there was plenty of provender for the horses.

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   The meaning of PROVENDER is dry food for domestic animals : feed. How to use provender in a sentence. Did you know?

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   provender / ˈ prɑːvəndɚ/ noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of PROVENDER. [noncount] old-fashioned. : food. a supply of provender. PROVENDER meaning: food.

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   provender /ˈprɒvɪndə/ n. any dry feed or fodder for domestic livestock. food in general. Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French provendre, from Late Latin praebenda grant, from Latin praebēre to proffer; influenced also by Latin prōvidēre to look after.

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   The only known use of the adjective provender is in the mid 1600s. OED's only evidence for provender is from 1643, in the writing of John Milton, poet and polemicist. It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500).